Jeremy M. Kahn, M.D., M.S.

Assistant Professor of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Blockley Hall, Room 723
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6160

tel.: 215-573-7791
fax: 215-614-0869
email:jmkahn@mail.med.upenn.edu

Education:

M.D.: University of Virginia

Residency: University of Chicago Hospitals

Fellowship: University of Washington Medical Center

 Dr. Kahn is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a member of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine. He joined the Division after completing a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned a Master of Science in epidemiology.

Dr. Kahn’s research program involves the organization, management, and financing of critical care services. Specific areas of interest include ICU workforce and staffing, quality measurement, benchmarking, and regionalization of critical care. He holds a career development award from the National Institutes of Health, investigating the effect of ICU organization on the outcomes of care for patients with acute lung injury and other types of acute respiratory failure.

Representative publications:

Kahn JM, Asch RJ, Iwashyna TJ, Haynes K, Rubenfeld GD, Angus DC, Asch DA. Physician attitudes toward regionalization of critical care: a national survey. Crit Care Med 2009;37:2149-2154.
Lott JP, Iwashyna TJ, Christie JD, Asch DA, Kramer AA, Kahn JM. Critical illness outcomes in speciality versus general intensive care units. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2009;179:676-683.
                      
Kahn JM, Rubenfeld GD, Rohrbach J, Fuchs BD. Cost savings attributable to reductions in intesnive care unit length of stay for mechancially ventilated patients. Medical Care 2008;46:1226-1233.

Kahn, JM, Goss CH, Heagerty PJ, Kramer AA, O'Brien CR, Rubenfeld GD. Hospital volume and the outcomes of mechanical ventilation. N Engl J Med 2006;335:41-50.

Kahn JM, Linde-Zwirble WT, Wunsch H, Barnato AE, Iwashyna TJ, Robers MS, Lave JR, Angus DC. Potential value of regionalized intensive care for mechanically ventilated patients. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2008;177:285-291.

Kahn JM, Andersson L, Karir V, Polissar NL, Neff MJ, Rubenfeld, G. Low tidal volume does not increase sedation use in patients with acute lung injury. Crit Care Med 2005;33:766-771

revised 7/09